Archive for the ‘Bobby Green’ tag

The flag drops and the hammer’s down at The Race of Gentlemen on Pismo Beach. Photo by Jeff Koch.
It rained at Woodstock in 1969. More than 400,000 people showed up and made the best of it despite the mud, and it went down as a pivotal event in music and social history. While the first West ... Read more

Well yes, it certainly does move! Those hop ups and motorcycles get going pretty fast over that eighth-mile stretch of beach sand. But what we really mean is that the date of the race is changing, and organizers are also adding a second location to the calendar.
Though this year Hurricane Joaquin f ... Read more

Jason Sheets tackled The Race of Gentlemen alongside wife Jennifer, he in this Bantam-grilled Model T and she astride a 1947 Harley-Davidson FL. Image by J. Daniel Beaudry, all images by J. Daniel Beaudry or the author.
This past weekend marked the fourth running of The Race of Gentlemen and the s ... Read more

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The Petersen’s Bulldog Cafe in happier times. Photos by Forest Casey, unless otherwise noted.
From 1928 until its post-1966 demolition, the Bulldog Cafe, a free-standing structure in the shape of a pipe-smoking bulldog, stood guard at 1153 West Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, selling tam ... Read more

With as many photos we run here of current junkyards, it’s worth looking at junkyards from days gone by every now and then. 41C28 on the H.A.M.B., from somewhere in Ohio, recently posted some photos an old friend gave him of a 1950s junkyard on Manchester Avenue in Middletown, Ohio.
Inter ... Read more

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While everybody’s paying attention to La Carrera Panamericana this weekend, auto racing of a slightly different, less potentially lethal sport will take place down at El Mirage.
The final of six Southern California Timing Association events for the year at El Mirage will run Saturday and Sund ... Read more

You know, in all the time I’ve been into old cars, I’ve never come across an old armored car. Todd Jensen over at Ted’s Garage did – a 1937 Dodge Wells Fargo armored car that sold for $2,000 through Sarasota Architectural Salvage. Are we going to see more of these hitting th ... Read more

Coop has some wonderful pictures of his buddy Bobby Green‘s big day out at El Mirage for the first time with his bellytank racer.
Man, that guy lives the life. I don’t see how I could live in Southern California and not be out at El Mirage all the time. Actually, I don’t see how I ... Read more